First call an ambulance, and then immediately begin a heart massage. This is what anyone who comes near someone who has cardiac arrest should do this, even if the rescuer is not a medic and has never attended resuscitation courses.
Heart massage and artificial respiration
This simple procedure, which everyone can do, is enough to save a human life. Thus, according to the new recommendations , published in the journal Circulation, is retired.
Goodbye also scenes from television series in which, in the course of helping, someone is always trying to reanimate an unconscious person by alternating three or four presses on the chest with two or three blows of air into his lungs. If help is provided by doctors, then this is correct, they know their business, but if we are talking about ordinary people, then they do not always do everything right.
The results of recent studies indicate that one should not waste time alternating between inhaling and pressing on the chest (and this is actually not an easy technique if there is no special training), but immediately begin to perform 100 clicks per minute in the center of the central part chest, without fear of causing any harm.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation can double the chances of survival for someone who has cardiac arrest, but only about a third of patients receive effective care from those around them.
Important to remember: these procedures are not applied when helping drowning people, because first you must free the victim’s lungs from water, and those who have lost consciousness as a result of drug overdose. In all these cases, it is better to wait for the doctors.
Very often, those who decided to help make a decision too long, wasting precious minutes. In addition, when mouth-to-mouth breathing is performed, they interrupt the massage for more than 10 seconds, thus making it ineffective. In addition, there is a danger of becoming infected, since very often help is provided to a stranger.